A day after cancelling his poll rallies in Maharashtra to review the security situation in Manipur, Union Home Minister Amit Shah is expected to hold another detailed meeting with top officers on Monday and take further steps, source said.

On Sunday, Shah reviewed the security situation in Manipur and directed top officials to take all possible steps to ensure peace in the Northeastern state, sources said.

In context: Shah’s Sunday meeting came as the situation in Manipur, which has been reeling from ethnic strife since May last year, continued to be volatile following protests and violence after the recovery of bodies of women and children.

Irate mobs set ablaze the residences of three more BJP legislators, one of whom is a senior minister, and a Congress MLA in various districts of Imphal Valley even as security forces foiled an attempt to storm the ancestral residence of Manipur Chief Minister N Biren Singh, officials said.

Enraged people torched the houses of PWD Minister Govindas Konthoujam at Ningthoukhong, Hiyanglam’s BJP MLA Y Radheshyam at Langmeidong Bazar, Wangjing Tentha’s BJP MLA Paonam Brojen in Thoubal district and Khundrakpam’s Congress MLA Th Lokeshwar in Imphal East district, the officials said.

The fresh incidents of violent protests took place on Saturday night even as an indefinite curfew was clamped after people, agitated by the killing of three women and three children by militants in Jiribam district, attacked the residences of three state ministers and six MLAs earlier on Saturday.

More than 220 people have been killed and thousands rendered homeless in ethnic violence between Imphal Valley-based Meiteis and adjoining hills-based Kuki-Zo groups since May last year.

Monday will mark the last day of campaigning for the Maharashtra Assembly polls and the second phase of elections in Jharkhand.

Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge and BJP president J P Nadda will be in Maharashtra. While Kharge will address a public meeting in Vasai, Nadda is scheduled to address a rally each in Thane, Solapur and Raigad.

Meanwhile, Leader of the Opposition in the Lok Sabha, Rahul Gandhi will address press conferences in the capitals of the two poll-bound states.

All 288 seats of Maharashtra and 38 of the 81 Assembly constituencies in Jharkhand will go to the polls on November 20, the results of which will be announced three days later.

The Supreme Court on Friday is likely to hear a plea for enforcement of measures to check pollution in the capital, after it was informed that Delhi should not become the most polluted city in the world.

Senior advocate Aprajita Singh, who has been appointed as amicus curiae, last week mentioned a matter related to air pollution before a Bench comprising Justices Abhay S Oka and Augustine George Masih. Singh urged the bench to hear the matter urgently against the backdrop of severe air pollution in Delhi. The bench led by Justice Oka has been hearing a matter related to air pollution in Delhi-NCR.

Singh submitted before the bench that she has intimated the Commission of Air Quality Management (CAQM) and they should explain what steps are being taken. After hearing brief submissions, the bench scheduled the matter for hearing on November 18.

– With PTI inputs